Friday, September 5, 2008

Old Minetta Tavern

The Minetta Tavern on MacDougal is undergoing major renovation by a new owner. Word has it that he is keeping the interior intact, and only changing the menu -- a good thing. A long time hangout for the '50s beats and then the '60s NYC showbiz and literary crowd, Minetta Tavern is classic Greenwich Village. One things for sure, the photos that lined Minetta's walls are already gone, packed up and relocated with the old owner. So here they are, photographed during Christmas, 07. The beautiful Eva Marie Saint, fresh from her role in On The Waterfront.

KM,these are just great. Thanks for showing us so many! Gabby Hayes??? I haven't thought about him for many a year. I want Eva too. My granddaughter's name is Eva! Go back when it's been renoed and let us see what they did.

you kids! This is old 1960s New York showbiz royalty. Eva Marie Saint starred in On the Waterfront with Brando. Soupy Sales was a popular comedian. Joseph Mitchell was perhaps the most popular writer at the New Yorker, Joe Gould was a well known Village crank. This is the problem, NY history is being erased...and replaced with chain crap you can get in any city in america...

What google will uncover these days. I was looking up Joe Gould and ended up finding a never-before-seen photo of him. Thanks!

I went to the reopened Minetta the other day and was quite disappointed to find that the Joe Gould portrait did not make the transition. I asked the host about it and he told me that it's now collecting dust in the owner's "private collection." Oh wells.

Copyright

All images on this site are the property of GreenwichVillageDailyPhoto 2008 (unless otherwise noted). Any unauthorized commercial use of the material on this site is expressly forbidden. Images from this site may not be reproduced in print or on the web for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without explicit permission from the creator.